Angela Shah
Angela Shah is the editor of Xconomy Texas. She has written about startups along a wide entrepreneurial spectrum, from Silicon Valley transplants to Austin transforming a once-sleepy university town in the '90s tech boom to 20-something women defying cultural norms as they seek to build vital IT infrastructure in a war-torn Afghanistan. As a foreign correspondent based in Dubai, her work appeared in The New York Times, TIME, Newsweek/Daily Beast and Forbes Asia.
Before moving overseas, Shah was a staff writer and columnist with The Dallas Morning News and the Austin American-Statesman. She has a Bachelor's of Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin, and she is a 2007 Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan. With the launch of Xconomy Texas, she's returned to her hometown of Houston.
Recent posts
Austin—In just a handful of years, people with smartphones have flocked in droves to ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft to get around town.
Now, an Austin, TX-based startup wants... Read more »
The promise, and pitfalls, of artificial intelligence became more apparent in the last year, and for Dave Copps, founder of A.I. companies such as Brainspace and Hypergiant Sensory Sciences, the pace... Read more »
[Updated 12/27/18, 9:54 am] Manoj Saxena is bullish on artificial intelligence. As chairman of Austin, TX-based A.I. startup CognitiveScale and managing director of The Entrepreneur Fund, which makes... Read more »
The American workforce has moved significantly beyond what Dolly Parton was familiar with.
Instead of a set 40-hour, “9 to 5” work week, we have flextime, gig work, and digital nomads.... Read more »
Let’s catch up with the latest innovation news in Texas.
—Austin’s Capital Factory has announced a new partnership with The Cannon in Houston, one that will offer companies with space at... Read more »
[Updated 12/13/18, 7:20 p.m.] Erik Halvorsen, who led the Texas Medical Center’s Innovation Institute, is out as director of the institute.
Lance Black, the institute’s medical device lead,... Read more »
Let’s catch up with the latest innovation news in Texas.
—Two Texas startups have been named to the inaugural 2019 cohort of the LaunchPad Lift program, which is organized by Blackstone... Read more »
Let’s get caught up with the latest innovation news in Texas.
—GrainChain, a blockchain agtech company based in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, has raised $2.5 million in... Read more »
Houston—It’s not just biotech companies that must cross the valley of death on their way to commercial success.
Everyday Mom-and-Pop shops, too, have to navigate the tricky adolescence period when... Read more »
Amid what seems like unlimited choices, a key way for retailers to stand out is to try to offer products no one else has.
For a small boutique, that could be... Read more »
As Amazon moves into its new home in the Big Apple, the company will find itself immersed in a storied—if tumultuous—local retail industry.
Unlike the other contenders for Amazon’s so-called “HQ2”... Read more »
Let’s catch up with the latest innovation news in Texas.
—The Texas Medical Center’s accelerator TMCx graduated its seventh class of startups, 23 health IT companies which included nine international startups.... Read more »
As word trickled out that North Texas was likely one of three finalists for Amazon’s “HQ2,” Chris Wallace felt optimistic about the region’s prospects.
After all, the tech giant had said... Read more »
Let’s catch up on the latest innovation news in Texas.
—Coder, a cloud-based software development startup out of Austin, announced it has raised $4.5 million in seed funding. The... Read more »
Houston—Commercial drones are equipped with some of the latest innovations in cameras, sensors, and analytics, so Scott Parazynski wondered why pilots are still using outmoded controllers.
“We’ve grown accustomed to... Read more »
Salsify, a maker of e-commerce software, has acquired Welcome Commerce, an Austin-based developer of chat technology.
Boston-based Salsify sells technology that helps retail brands like Michelin and Anheuser-Busch manage their products... Read more »
Two Texas startup founders who ran for seats in the U.S. Congress and the Texas statehouse lost their bids for political office Tuesday.
Joseph Kopser
Joseph Kopser in... Read more »
The University of Houston and Hewlett Packard Enterprise on Friday announced a collaboration designed to enable advances in data science.
The announcement includes a $10 million donation from the computing company... Read more »
As Election Day nears, a group of Austin startup leaders have formed a group to encourage tech employees to vote.
The ATX Startup Pledge’s mission is to “remove obstacles” that... Read more »
Let’s get caught up with the latest innovation news from Texas.
—The Texas Medical Center’s TMCx accelerator has been included in a list of best programs for the first time. With platinum... Read more »
